A plaque at the site says tortoises are considered holy creatures in Vietnam, and the stelae were first set up in 1484 under Emperor Le Thanh Tong to honour students of the day, and to encourage ...

Critically endangered elongated tortoises were among the tortoises and turtles commonly traded online in Vietnam. Image by Superbass via Creative Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) Raising awareness about the ...

A critically endangered tortoise at the Thanh Hoa bird market ... It’s going to take five years for Vietnam to [manage bird crime] as effectively as other species groups.” ...

Vietnam and Taiwan. The repatriation of the 963 animals -- ring-tailed lemurs, brown lemurs, spider tortoises and radiated tortoises -- is a "significant step" in anti-trafficking operations, Minister ...

Police and wildlife officials rescued 400 tortoises during an initial raid ... Taiwan, Laos and Vietnam, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. "This species is popular in the pet ...

A new genetic study could help saolas survive by enabling better searches through environmental DNA. But some experts fear they may be extinct already.

On New Year’s Day, Joe Hollins celebrates his ancient buddy, Jonathan the tortoise, the world’s oldest living land animal. Jonathan is now 191 years old — or so. “He could actually be ...